Concert Connection

For nearly three years, the only thing keeping pace with the growing number of miles on Daughtry’s tour bus has been the band’s list of achievements.

After charting three #1 songs from its five-times platinum debut and spending more than two years on the road, Daughtry with their already platinum Leave This Town (19/RCA). The album entered at the top of the Billboard 200, making it the band’s second #1 album. The album’s first single, “No Surprise,” extended the group’s extraordinary streak of #1 singles to four. The band’s third and current single "September" is following the same path.

Singer Chris Daughtry says it feels like the band has lived a lifetime in three years. “We’ve come so far so fast, working our way up from clubs to headlining arenas,” he says. “The best part is that it feels like we’re just getting started.” Guitarist Brian Craddock adds: “You couldn’t have scripted these last few years any better.”

Beyond the tragedy, the history, the raging guitars and the killer songs, ultimately, Lynyrd Skynyrd is about an indomitable will. About survival of spirit; unbowed, uniquely American, stubbornly resolute.

Says Rossington, “We’re still standing, still keeping the music going. We wanted to do the guys who aren’t with us any more proud, and keep the name proud, too.”